Perfect for 4th of JULY - Fresh Peach Pie - Yummy in Summer

The season for fresh peaches is short, but it’s certainly a tasty time of the year when the peaches are ripe and ready to eat.

Peaches are delicious fresh off the tree. Some Southerners eat them like apples while others prefer to slice peaches and eat them with a fork. Either way, it’s hard to beat a good ripe peach you can use grocery (frozen) peaches and canned peaches to make a pie but I would not recommend it unless it’s the dead of winter and you are trapped by the snow…

Fresh Peach Pie Recipe

Double pie crust (9 inch size)
5 cups of fresh ripe peaches (sliced – sometimes I peel them sometimes I don’t)
1 tsp lemon juice - fresh
1 cup sugar -
1/3 cup regular flour
¼ tsp cinnamon
1 TBS good vanilla
3 TBS Markers Mark Bourbon
2 TBS butter

Directions:

You can make your own pie crust or get a frozen double crust of refrigerator crusts. If you’re not making your own, don’t bother with the frozen ones… crusts in the refrigerator section taste more like homemade than the freezer types.


Mix the lemon juice and vanilla with the fresh peaches. Stir a little bit to get the lemon juice mixed in.

In a separate bowl, mix together the sugar, flour, and cinnamon. Mix well.

Stir the sugar/flour mix in with the peaches.

Pour the peach mixture in a pie crust.

Dot the butter evenly around on top of the peach mix in the crust.

Top with the second crust and cut slits in the top or cut the top crust into lattice strips

Flute the edges of the crust. In other words, mash the edges together and then use your fingers to make little ridges like you see on pie crusts in the store.

Bake in a preheated 425 degree F oven for around 40 minutes. Check often near the end of the baking time as ovens can vary. The middle of the pie should be a pretty buttery brown, and you’ll see bubbles in the knife slits.

You’ll probably need to put strips of tin foil or a pie edge protector around the outside edge of the pie the last 15 minutes or so. Fluted edges tend to get darker than the center on homemade pies.

Fresh peach pie is fabulous served warm; even better with a scoop on a spoon of vanilla ice cream.

Peach pie is also fine served cold. The pie does need to be stored in the refrigerator, since it’s a fruit pie.